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50-year-old Message Found in a Jar on Jersey Shore

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50-year-old Message Found in a Jar on Jersey Shore
Dennis Komsa was 12 years old in 1963 when, while vacationing with family along the Jersey Shore, he wrote a note, put it in a glass jar and tossed it into the Atlantic Ocean. It wasn't until after Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast last October, that the Ball mason jar was found when Norman Stanton combed through storm debris in Seaside Heights, N.J.

Dennis Komsa was 12 years old in 1963 when, while vacationing with family along the Jersey Shore, he wrote a note, put it in a glass jar and tossed it into the Atlantic Ocean. It wasn't until after Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast last October, that  the Ball mason jar was found when Norman Stanton combed through storm debris in Seaside Heights, N.J.

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